Tumblr has an advantage in that "notification" is a more limited concept the way it handles things: someone liking you, following you, or reblogging you is a notification, but new posts from people you follow aren't notifications. And, of course, it has no concept of "read" or "unread" notifications: it just spools everything to you on the dashboard in reverse chronological order. They're huge enough that they have serious scaling issues anyway, although they were always designed with the notion that scalability was job #1, which is how they were able to push a fairly standard LAMP stack so damn far.
I'd like to see a furry archive site experiment sometime with a dashboard that's more like Tumblr's and less like the FA model, or perhaps something entirely different -- by 2014 standards, having to explicitly acknowledge every little thing that happens seems archaic, especially on FA's UI.
Tumblr has an advantage in that "notification" is a more limited concept the way it handles things: someone liking you, following you, or reblogging you is a notification, but new posts from people you follow aren't notifications. And, of course, it has no concept of "read" or "unread" notifications: it just spools everything to you on the dashboard in reverse chronological order. They're huge enough that they have serious scaling issues anyway, although they were always designed with the notion that scalability was job #1, which is how they were able to push a fairly standard LAMP stack so damn far.
I'd like to see a furry archive site experiment sometime with a dashboard that's more like Tumblr's and less like the FA model, or perhaps something entirely different -- by 2014 standards, having to explicitly acknowledge every little thing that happens seems archaic, especially on FA's UI.
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